LA HABRA >> Murrieta Valley High School gave up nearly 500 yards and six touchdowns Friday. But with an offense that was unstoppable, the Nighthawks didn’t really care. Hank Bachmeier threw for 319 yards and five touchdowns and Murrieta Valley advanced to its first CIF Southern Section championship game with a 63-42 victory over host La Habra in a Division 2 semifinal.

La Mirada (10-2) vs. Los Alamitos (9-3), 7 p.m.: The top-seed Matadores got pushed to the brink in last week’s 32-31 win over La Serna. You can look at that two ways; Everybody has a close call along the way to a championship, or it’s a sign that La Mirada has sprung some leaks.

LA MIRADA >> Coroner’s officials have released the identity of a 45-year-old La Habra man who was fatally shot by SWAT deputies following a three-and-a-half-hour standoff at a La Mirada gas station early Tuesday morning.

LA HABRA HEIGHTS>> A pair of burglars stole a car Tuesday, fled from the pursuing victim, crashed but got away. Lt. Arthur Scott of the Sheriff’s Industry Station said two men entered a home in the 1600 block of El Travesia Drive around 11:45 p.

Can you believe it’s already Thanksgiving week? I mean weren’t we just talking about 4th of July fireworks? As promised, this week’s The Play List is holiday-focused but I think you’ll still find some new things to do in your own neighborhood that aren’t the usual, turkey day things.

LA HABRA >> This hasn’t been an ideal season for the La Habra High football team. In nonleague play the Highlanders lost three straight games, and their 47-game Freeway League winning streak, which lasted nearly a decade, was ended by Buena Park.

Arroyo (10-1) at Schurr (8-3), 7:30 p.m.: The question you need to be asking yourself right now is which league was better: the Almont (were Schurr banged heads) or the Mission Valley (where Arroyo ran roughshod).

Any doubts about whether the La Habra High School football program belonged in Division 2 were quickly put to rest last Friday. The Highlanders, who got bumped to the second-highest division in the CIF Southern Section, knocked off No.

WESTLAKE VILLAGE >> Not even torrential traffic on the 101 freeway could stop La Habra in its quest for another section title Friday night. Despite being stiff and a bit restless after a long bus ride, the Highlanders made no excuses and knocked off Oaks Christian, 35-28, in the first round of the CIF-SS Division 2 playoffs.

Wednesday was the culmination of dreams come true for eight area athletes who made their college choices official by signing scholarships to their respective universities. The list is led by the La Mirada High School baseball duo of RJ Lan and Kevin Kendall, who signed with powers Texas Christian and UCLA, respectively, but also features Montebello softball player Victoria Alvarez, who signed with Division I Creighton; the La Habra softball trio of Kira Cauley (Cal State Northridge), Hannah Johnson (Cal State Fullerton) and Alyssa Palacios (Utah); Whittier Christian baseball player Isaiah Carreon (Cal State San Bernardino) and La Mirada golfer Matthew Carungay (Loyola Marymount).

Prosecutors in Illinois are investigating allegations of sexual child abuse made in the mid-1980s — and allegedly not disclosed by a Chicago-area school district — against a man who went on to teach for 30 years in Orange County.

BUENA PARK >> Since coach Anthony White arrived at Buena Park in 2010, the Coyotes have had their eyes on dethroning La Habra in the Freeway League. The Coyotes scored 27 unanswered second-half points on their way to a 27-13 victory over La Habra, snapping the Highlanders’ 47-game league winning streak and putting themselves in prime position to win their first league championship since 1966.

LA HABRA >> Officers checking a flood control channel for a possible campfire ended up arresting a homeless man with a loaded gun on Thursday night. La Habra Police Sgt. Daniel Barnes said the officers went to the flood control channel at Beach Boulevard and Imperial Highway shortly before midnight.

LA HABRA >> A Hacienda Heights man died late Friday following a crash between his motorcycle and a pickup truck on Harbor Boulevard in La Habra, police said. Dominic Alvarez, 26, died at Orange County Global Medical Center in Santa Anta less than three hours after the crash, which took place at 9:02 p.

LA HABRA >> Police are seeking a gunman who robbed the same La Habra has station twice in recent weeks and may be linked to additional robberies throughout the region, authorities said. The robber struck Monday at the a Shell gas station,

LA HABRA >> Police are investigating a shooting reported in a residential La Habra neighborhood Thursday afternoon. No victims or suspects were found following the possibly gang-related gunfire, which took place about 5:40 p.

MISSION VIEJO >> La Habra High School had a chance last season to knock off traditional power Mission Viejo. Instead, the Highlanders walked away shaking their heads and wondering about a lost opportunity.

La Habra High School felt it left a victory on the table last season when it lost to traditional power Mission Viejo, 24-14. The Highlanders get another shot Friday. But it won’t be easy when they travel to Mission Viejo for the rematch at 7 p.

LAS FLORES -- Chase Petersen threaded a touchdown pass to Joe Morenc in the end zone and Joe Rizkallah kicked the extra point for Tesoro as the Titans beat La Habra, 14-13, in overtime Friday at Tesoro High.

LA HABRA >> An armed man held up a gas station on Wednesday then locked the clerk in the restroom before leaving with cash. Police have not determined yet how much money the robber took. The robber hit the Shell station in the 100 block of East Imperial Highway at about 10 p.

LA HABRA >> Burglars smashed their way into a La Habra Boulevard pharmacy late Wednesday for the second time in just over two weeks, authorities said. The most recent break-in was reported about 10:30 p.

Mater Dei at Bishop Amat, 7:30 p.m.: The Lancers will be debuting several new faces against what many consider to be one of the top two or three teams in Southern California. Amat has to replace its leading passer, rusher and receiver from last season.

Players like Eric Barriere don’t come along too often. And they simply can’t be replaced. The former La Habra High School quarterback who guided the Highlanders to a CIF Southern Section championship last season is now at Eastern Washington.

LA HABRA — A man was trapped inside his vehicle and critically injured this morning in a solo vehicle crash in an unincorporated area abutting La Habra, authorities said. The accident was reported at 1:45 a.

LA HABRA >> Coroner’s officials have released the identity of a 34-year-old Sierra Madre woman who was found dead inside a parked car at a La Habra shopping center Friday morning. Megan Sterling was pronounced dead at the scene after

LA HABRA >> A man walking his dog Friday discovered the body of a woman in a parked car at a shopping center, police said. Police have not released the name of the woman but described her as white and about 35.

LA HABRA >> Police are asking the public to keep an eye out for a missing 18-year-old La Habra woman, as well as her ex-boyfriend, who investigators described as a “person of interest.” Emily Casillas was last seen about 8 a.

LA HABRA>> After three days working the corn booth at La Habra’s annual Corn Festival, another husk is the last thing Dave Coffin wants to see. “After you go through 13,000 ears of corn, somebody will say, ‘Hey come to the house for a barbecue, we’re having steak and corn,’ ” Coffin said.

LA HABRA >> Five restaurants, two in La Habra and three in Whittier, were burglarized early Thursday morning, apparently by the same thief, police said. All four burglaries took place along Whittier Boulevard between 1 and 2 a.

LA HABRA >> Police made one DUI arrest during a sobriety and driver license checkpoint in La Habra Friday night, officials said. One driver is accused of driving under the influence of marijuana following the checkpoint, which was held from 10 p.

NORWALK >> A La Habra man was sentenced Tuesday to more than 110 years in state prison for shooting at law enforcement during a 2014 standoff, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said Tuesday.

LA HABRA >> A man showed up at an emergency room after being shot in a residential neighborhood in La Habra early Sunday, police said. The victim, a La Habra man, arrived at an area hospital about 3:20 a.

Player of the Year: Janelle Rodriguez, La Habra, Junior La Habra’s Janelle Rodriguez began the season as one of the top dual-threat players in the area. An injury took away part of her game halfway through 2016, but like most elite athletes, she found away to adapt, helping the Highlanders become one of the top teams in the state.

LA HABRA HEIGHTS >> For the first time in three years, the City Council will have money to spend as a result of a $300,000 surplus unexpectedly generated this year and a projected $100,000-plus in fiscal 2016-17.

LA HABRA HEIGHTS – City Manager Shauna Clark has proposed a $3.1 million general-fund budget that doesn’t include the $1.3 million Fire Department budget that is paid mostly out of a separate fire tax.

LA HABRA >> A convicted felon found in possession of 21 rifles, three handguns, ammunition and high-capacity magazines pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to numerous charges including weapons violations, drug possession and child endangerment, according to court records, Ronald Amster, 41, was arraigned Tuesday jn an Orange County courtroom.

LA HABRA - Officers discovered the bodies of a man and a woman in a house Monday night after the couple’s teenaged son called police. The teen and his younger sister were home when the shooting occurred, but weren’t injured, according to La Habra Police Lt.

MORENO VALLEY >> Martha Epenesa called it the least she could do. For her Valley View High School softball teammates, it was the most they could have asked for. Epenesa delivered a tie-breaking triple in the bottom of the sixth inning Tuesday to lift the Eagles over top-seeded La Habra, 3-2, in a CIF Southern Section Division 2 semifinal.

LA HABRA HEIGHTS >> By the time someone could reach her, Elli had dug her face into dirt, frantically attempting to escape the horde of bees attacking her. The seven-month-old pup was in the back yard of her La Habra Heights home late afternoon Friday when a swarm of bees descended, stinging her at least 150 times.

LA HABRA >> For the third time in the last five years the La Habra High School girls softball team is headed back to the CIF-Southern Section semifinals, but not without a late charge by visiting Rio Mesa, of Oxnard.

MONTEBELLO >> Cantwell-Sacred Heart of Mary High School’s Andre Garcia will have the best of both worlds next baseball season. The senior is fortunate to continue his baseball career at the collegiate level and will do so at nearby Whittier College after signing with the Poets in a ceremony at CSHM on Wednesday.

LA HABRA >> Authorities have released the identity of a 82-year-old Los Angeles woman who died in a two-vehicle crash in La Habra over the weekend that also left another woman and two children injured.